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54 Singers to Make Trip
17 Concerts on Spring Tour
Schedule; Home Con-cert
on April 3
Augustana Senior Is
Married December 26
Augustana students were sur-prised
to learn of the marriage of
Lorraine Tabor, Sioux Falls, to
James Hazard, also of Sioux Falls,
which took place December 26 in
Chicago. The wedding was an-nounced
at a party given by the
bride's mother on Saturday eve-ning,
February 8.
Mrs. Hazard is a senior and will
receive her degree in June. Her
husband is attending Northwest-ern
University in Chicago, and
will be graduated for the insurance
department in the spring. They will
make their home in Chicago where
Mr. Hazard is connected with the
Aetna Insurance Company.
With nearly a decade of startling
concert achievement and progress
to its credit, the Augustana College
Choir, Sioux Falls, S. D., is sched-uled
for a concert season which
should serve as a worthy climax to
ten years of effort in the field of
classical sacred music. Arrange-ments
for the season include a home
concert scheduled in connection with
the first annual Music Festival of
the college on April 2-4 and an
annual tour which will take these
54 singers, their director, and man-ager,
to seventeen cities in South
Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri,
and Iowa, among which are included
some of the leading concert cities of
the Middle West. Several concerts
will be given on week end trips
to points within a short distance
from Sioux Falls. The Spring Tour
will begin on Easter Sunday, April
20 and will continue until Monday,
May 5.
Dr. Carl FL Youngdahl, director
of the choir, who was the founder
of the organization and who has
directed it since its beginning, be-lieves
that the tenth annual choir
is without a peer in Augustana
Choir history. Each year better
voices come to the college to try
out for membership in the nation-ally
lauded organization and in
consequence its singing is each year
bringing leading music critics every-where
to recognize that the Middle
West and America has developed an-other
choral organization which
ranks with the finest anywhere.
Charles Watt, editor of Music News
and a critic who knows whereof he
speaks states through . the officia 1
organ of the National Federation of
Music Clubs that the Augustana
ef Sioux Falls r is ad-mittedly
on, of the best ever de-veloped
in America."
Much Lauded In East
In the trip to the East this sum-mer
music lovers were unreserved
in their commendation of the superb
singing and unusual program of the
Choir. Concert managers were so
well pleased with the group that
invitations to make another appear-ance
soon were the rule. In view
of this demand Dr. Youngdahl is
thinking of the possibilities of mak-ing
another Eastern tour in 1931.
In its first decade of existence
the Choir has appeared from coast
to coast. The growth of the organ-ization
and the rapid acceptance of
its merit by music lovers has been
more rapid than anticipated by the
director even five years ago when an
Argus-Leader reporter asked him if
he contemplated taking the choir
to Boston and the East coast. At
that time Dr. Youngdahl answered,
"Put no bug like that into our ear
for the present at least." But the
Choir had not yet celebrated its
decennial before the unthought of
had been accomplished. That has
been the history of the choir, to
accomplish the impossible in sup-plying
the concert-going public with
music programs of unrivalled beau-ty.
Other organizations of a similar
nature have attributed their phe-nomenal
rise to work. The Augus-tana
Choir has been no exception,
for work has been the keyword of
its success. However, without the
love of the director for the task at
hand coupled with the youthful en-thusiasm
and unswerving allegiance
of the singers who fall under the
spell of his baton, no national repu-tation
such as the Choir now en-
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The Augustana Mirror
Vol. Sioux Falls, S. D., February 15, 1930 No.432"
Entrants Compete In Old Line,
Peace Oratory and Extemp Talks
Augustana Debaters Score Five
Consecutive Victories Over Buena
Vista, Concordia, Dakota Wesleyan
Augustana A Capella Choir To
Visit Four States To The South
On Their Annual Concert Tour
Maintain Perfect Record Miss Lewison Will
Coach Senior Play
11 el VI , 1111.
According to an announcement
received here Miss Borghild M.
Dahl, head of the English depart-ment,
has been appointed on the
committee to outline the course in
Scandinavian Languages which will
be offered in the new curriculum
for South Dakota high schools.
Scandinavian languages have not
been previously included in the
regular high school curriculum, while
practically all of the other modern
languages have received a large
share of attention. Mr. Giffen, head
of the South Dakota Department
of Education, states that the large
Scandinavian population in this
state makes it imperative that these
languages are offered, as well as
some of the languages which have
less interest to the average student.
This announcement is of special
interest to Augustana students, for
this college has had a department
of Scandinavian literature for sev-eral
years.
Ralph East
Larson, Enstrom. Nelson
Will Represent
Augustan a
Funds Being Raised
to Complete Church
Arthur Larrsun
University Women
Hold Meeting Here
The monthly meeting of the Am-erican
Association of University
Women was held in the parlors of
Ladies Hall on Saturday afternoon,
February S. The hostesses were
Mesdames G. H. Gilbertson, 0. Ton-fling,
and H. S. Hilleboe, and Misses
Selma Hogenson, Ellen Lewison,
Gratia Kjerland, Borghild and Dor-othy
Dahl, Olga Wold, and Nina
Solum. After all business had been
disposed of, Dr. Gage of Huron
'College spoke on "The China and
Japan of Today," explaining their
attitude toward foreigners, their
reasons for expansion, and their
means of salvation. He also dis-cussed
the Chinese and Japanese
theatre. This was followed by a
free discussion, after which the
hostesses served refreshments.
Mario Capelli Delights
Appreciative Audience
Under the direction of Miss Ellen
A. Lewison of the English depart-ment,
the senior class has begun
preliminary work in preparation
for the play which it will present
in the spring. A committee, con-sisting
of 0. Clifford Halvorson,
Astoria; Evelyn Larson, Canton;
and Eleanor Holbrook, Sioux Falls;
is now working with Miss Lewison
on the task of selecting a play.
Tryouts will be held in the near
future, and the cast selected.
It has become customary for the
college senior class to present a
play each spring, and, with work
beginning this early in the season,
it seems certain that the usual high
standard of Augustana dramatics
will be maintained when the class
of 1930 presents its play this
ppring.
Contest In Extemp
Speaking Is Held
The inter-society extemporaneous
contest was held in the Old Main
Chapel Wednesday evening, Febru-ary
5. This was the second of a
series of four contests, which in-clude
debate, extemporaneous, ora-tory,
and play.
In the women's division, the
Athenians won first place, with a
score of 86 1-3. The Adelphics,
with 85 2-3, and the Philomatians,
with 84 5-6, followed closely be-hind,
however, and the contest was
one of the most interesting of the
season. The men's contest, while
not so close, was also interesting,
so that the audience was never rest-less
during the entire contest. The
Demosthenians won this contest,
with the remarkable percentage of
89 1/2; the Gladstonians came sec-ond,
with 84, and the Websterians
were third, with 81 Y2. Individual
winners of the contest were Myrtle
Lokken in the women's division,
and Melvin Nelsen in the men's
division. Both had perfect ratings.
Representatives of the Athenian
Society were Dorothy Ege, Sioux
Falls, whose topic was "What kind,
or kinds, of immiprants does the
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Forensic representatives of Au-gustan•
will be gues,s of Dakota
Wesleyan University at Mitchell
on Friday and Saturday of this
week, when the South Dakota Inter-collegiate
Oratorical contest will be
held. Augustana will be represent-ed
in all departments of the contest,
which includes Old Line and Peace
oratory and extemporaneous speak-ing.
Augustana's representatives in the
contest are Ralph Enstrom, Canton,
in Old Line oratory; Arther Lar-son,
Sioux Falls, in Peace Oratory;
and Melvin Nelsen, Sioux Falls, in
extemporaneous speech.
Ralph Enstrom, a sophomore, Prof. C. Olson Directs won the right to represent Angus-
Glee Club in Concert tana in the State !Contest as the
The Norse Glee Club gave a con-result
of winning the Home Ora-
After only a week's work, the
campaign for funds to finish the
First Lutheran Church had on Sun-day,
February 9, reached a total of
over $30,000.00. This was made
possible through the valuable serv-ices
of Dr. J. A. 0. Stub, pastor
of Central Lutheran Church, Min-neapolis,
who spoke in behalf of the
church drive on Sunday evening,
'February 2; through the help of the
Rt. Rev. Bergsaker ; through the
co-operation of Rev. H. M. Mason
of the Church Extension Depart-ment,
and Rev. Axel Shefveland of
the Pension Department, who were
sent here by the Church headquar-ters
in Minneapolis; and also
through the splendid work done by
the men from the First Lutheran
Church.
By defeating Concordia College in
a debate at Moorhead, Minnesota,
Friday evening, February 7, an
Augustana men's debate team broke
the jinx which has been following
Augustana forensics, in the form of
defeats in debate by Concordia in
lour consecutive engagements with
that school. That the jinx has been
decisively broken is further proved
by the victory which A.ugustana
women scored over Concordia a few
weeks ago.
Representatives of Augustana in
this debate were Melvin Nelsen,
Sioux Falls; Arthur Larson, Sioux
Falls; and Richard Hanson, Free-man.
They excelled the Concordia
debaters, Wigdahl, Hagen, and Dis-tad,
in every point of the contest,
and scored a decisive victory, in
the opinion of the judge of the de-bate,
who was Prof. P. J. Hartness
of Northern State Teacher's Col-lege.
Prof. Hartness gave a critic's
decision.
On Friday, January 31, Augus-tana
defeated Dakota Wesleyan
University in a dual debate. A wo-men's
team, composed of Minerva
Nelson, Sioux Falls; Achsah Odell,
Montrose; and Myrtle Lokken,
Sioux Falls; defeated Wesleyan's
women's team, in a debate at Au-gustana,
in the Old Main Chapel,
Friday afternoon; and a men's
team, consisting of Melvin Nelsen,
Sioux Falls; Arthur Larson, Sioux
Falls; and Richard Hanson, Free-man;
won a victory at Mitchell Fri-day
evening.
Two non-decision debates were
held Monday evening, February 3.
Melvin Nelsen, Richard Hanson, and
Arthur Larson debated Morningside
College at Hawarden High School.
Hawarden, Iowa; and a two man
team, Orvin Larson, Sioux Falls;
and Joseph Saetveit, Friendship.
Wisconsin; debated a team from
Huron College, in the Old Main
Chapel.
In the Old Main Chapel Wed-nesday
evening, February 12, an
Augustana men's debate team, com-posed
of Arthur Larson, Sioux
Falls; Richard Hanson, Freeman;
and Melvin Nelsen, Sioux Falls; de-feated
a team from Buena Vista
College, of Storm Lake, Iowa. De
bating the negative side of the na-tional
Pi Kappa Delta question, the
Augustana debaters were superior
in every point of the contest, ex-cept
that of analysis, according to
Mr. J. D. Coon, prominent Sioux
Falls attorney, who gave a critic
decision of the debate.
$2,350 Is Total of
Library Contributions
Those who are interested in see-ing
the Augustana Library Fund
reach its goal will be delighted to
know that by continued effort actual
cash contributions to the cause by
various Luther Leagues, Ladies'
Aids, and Memorial Contributions
the Fund has grown to $2,350.40.
To meet requirements the total
$8,000 must be raised which re-quires
that more must enlist in an
effort to reach the goal. The alum-ni
have been asked to help do their
bit as well as the regular Luther
League and other auxiliary organ-izations
of the churches in the col-lege
district. Most congregations
have started contributing to the
fund and have stated intentions of
continuing until they can make a
100 per cent showing.
The present status of the fund
can be found on page two. Addi-tions
will be made as the contribu-tions
come in.
Inquiries Indicate A
Good Summer Session
Reports from the registrar's of-fice
indicate that a goodly number
of students can be expected at the
summer session, which begins the
second week of June. The large
number of inquiries compared to
that of previous years indicate that
the courses have a real attraction
for those who wish to augment
their credit or prepare themselves
for advance work. Many no doubt
are interested in the splendid op-portunity
this summer session of-fers
for training in music. Any
one who desires to attend should
make arrangements to do so now.
One of the most pleasing tenors
ever heard in Sioux Falls appeared
at the First Methodist Church
Thursday evening, February 6, in
the person of the Italian-American
tenor, Signor Mario Capelli. From
first to last he held his audience
spellbound with his deep, round
tones, and with his sympathetic in-terpretations.
Especially in the sing-ing
of Negro spirituals and Italian
folk songs did Signor Capelli excel.
The large church was filled to
hear him, and the audience in-cluded
many Augustana students,
who had taken the advice of Dr.
Robertson, pastor of the church,
who asked the students to attend
in a talk at chapel Wednesday,
January 29. All were equally well
pleased witu Ole' . (11.
by the applause which followed ev-ery
number, and by the fact that
time after time Signor Capelli was
prevailed upon to sing encores and
request numbers.
Dr. Robertson announced that
Signor Capelli may return to Sioux
Falls sometime during the summer,
so that music lovers of the city
may hear him again then.
Several Non-Decision De-bates
Are Held in Pre-paration
for Tournament
Miss Borghild Dahl
Gets Appointment
Model School To Be
Completely Remodeled
Under the supervision of Miss
Hilda Dahl, new critic teacher,
many, improvements are under way
in the training school. A large
cloak room is being transformed
into Zit) offi•e for the supervise, •
arrangements for the placing of art
work on the walls are completed;
and a definite art curriculum is be-ing
established.
Practice teachers are given a
change every six weeks, either in
subjects or in grades taught. Each
teacher now has both "A" and
"B" classes, and each teacher has
one room. Intensive work is being
done in music, a policy in keeping
with Augustana's reputation in the
music field. The grammar grades
are now doing two-part music.
According to Miss Dahl, the en-tire
Model School building is to be
rennovated, and put in the best of
condition.
cert at the Metropolitan Hall Sun-day
afternoon, February 9. The
Glee Club has been conducting pop-ular
matinee concerts under the
leadership of Prof. Clifford Olson.
The program given follows:
"Steal Away" Negro Spirituals
`Swinging Low"
"Den Store Hvide Flok" Grieg
Glee Club
Violin solo
James Berdahl
"Larboard Watch" Williams
"Last Night" (request number )__
Kjerulf
Glee Club
Reading
Memorial Contribution
Swells Library Fund
Minerva Nelson
"Olav Trygvason" Reisiger
"Naar Fjordene Blaaner" Paulson
Glee Club
torical Contest last May. He has a
task ahead of him worthy of the
best orator, to hold t1i silver cup
for the school which ,!lr. Larson
won last year, and wi it MT.
EndLrom -wirm tne co:Az2....Fk? this week,
will remain the permanent property
of Augustana. The title of Mr. En.:
strom's oration is "The Lag."
Melvin Nelsen, in his second year
of state competition, is expected to
make a somewhat better showing
over that of last year. He is a
senior, and at his best he should
bring further honors to Augustana
in forensics.
Arthur Larson is also in his sec-ond
year of state competition. Last
year he won the Old Line contest,
and because of the rule prevent-ing
a winner from competing in
the same contest again, he is en-tered
in the Peace contest this
year. He is a junior at Augustana.
Mr. Larson's oration is entitled,
"Indian Medicine."
These men will represent Au-gustana
at the state contest this
year, and, with proper support from
the rest of the students, they should
return with as large a share of the
honors as Augustana ever received.
Dr. Preus Addresses
Augustana Auxiliary
The Augustana Women's Auxili-ary
met „ at the First Lutheran
Church on Monday, February 3.
The program included a talk by
Dr. 0. J. H. Preus, and a violin
solo, "Ballade et Polonaise" (Vieux-temps)
by Gloria Monserud, Sioux
Falls, accompanied by Esther Oker-lund,
Frost, Minnesota. Rev. H. 0.
Shurson, treasurer of the general
church body, gave a short talk.
Hostesses for the afternoon were:
Mesdames N. 0. Monserud, W. 0.
Nelson, G. H. Gilbertson, and E. G.
Ege.
Inter-Class Tourney To
Be Held for Debaters
The forensic department of the
college will sponsor on inter-class
debate tournament which will be
held some time in March, accord-ing
to an announcement made last
week. The purpose of the debates
will be twofold. In the first place
they will give those not able to
compete in varsity debate a chance
to do some interesting work, and
finally, they will stimulate inter-class
interest. The subject of the
debate will be the chain store
question. Two teams from each
class will compete. and many of the
students interested have already
started working on the question.
Another In Memoriam contribu-tion
to the Augustana College Li-brary
fund has been received at
the college recently. The contribu-tion
was made to the memory of
Mrs. Eda Hove of Flandreau, S. D.,
who died on January 9, 1930. The
(donors to the contribution were her
husband, Ole Hove, and Mrs. S. B.
Halverson, Sioux Falls, Mrs. H. P.
Moen, and Mrs. Smeby of Mis-sion
Hill, sisters-in-law to the de-ceased.
There were other, contribu-tors
to the fund according to Rev.
J. A. Billie of Flandreau who sent
the Memorial to the college.
This is the second contribution of
such a memorial nature to be made
to the fund within the past month.
The previous memorial was the
(Chester Hanson Memorial of the
Mission Hill congregation.
Societas Latina to
Hold Annual Banquet
The regular Latin Society meet-ing
was held in the Old Main chapel
Tuesday e v e n i n g, January 28.
Plans for the Latin banquet, which
probably will be held on February
18, were discussed. The following
committees were appointed: re-freshments,
Esther Olbertson, Beres-ford,
chairman; Eunice Hawley,
Brandt; and Mildred Halderson,
Elk Point; decorating—Marie Berg-saker,
Sioux Falls, chairman; Agnes
Rodvold, Lake Preston; and Mae
Oyan, Baltic; program (a standing
committee) — Minerva Christenson,
Sioux Falls, chairman; Clarine El-lefson,
Sioux Falls; and Roumelle
Lundeen, Bristol. The following
members of the teacher's training
class will also assist: Marion Nel-son,
Hills, Minnesota; Grace El-lingson,
Ellingson; Iva Carlson,
Trent; Myrtle Lokken, Sioux Falls;
Bernhard Stadem, Bryant; and
Roumelle Lundeen, Bristol.
Recital Is Presented
By Students of Music
One of a series of student re-
-citals was presented in the chapel
of the Old Main on the evening of
Monday, February 10. Pupils of
Dr. Carl R. Youngdahl, Professor
Clifford J. Olson, Miss Gladys An-derson,
and Miss Laura Fisher ap-peared.
Another recital will be
given February 24.
The following pr o g r a m was
given:
Piano—Sonata Opus 2___Beethoven
Allegro con brio
Esther Okerlund, Frost Minnesota
Voice—Where 'er You Walk____
Handel
Herman Larsen, Garretson
Piano—Mazurka Saint Saens
Melvin Freng, Yankton
Voice—Deep River Burleigh
My Little Sunflower Goodnight__
Vanderpool
Marie Bergsaker, Sioux Falls
Organ—Sonata in C Minor
Guilmant
Allegro maestro
Adagio
Doris Arnold, St. Paul, Minnesota
Piano—Pharaonenland ___Niemann
Blair Burnson, Hettinger,
North Dakota
Voice—Maytime Oley Speaks
Edna Rasmussen, Sioux Falls
Piano—Dawn Friml
The Holy Mount Niehmann
Phyllis Sullivan, Wynot, Nebraska
Voice--iLift Thine Eyes Logan
Edward Paul, Bryant
Symphony Orchestra Pleases Large
Audience With Exceptional Program
Sophomore Class Will Pay Penalty
By Sponsoring All School Carnival
The Augustana Symphony Or-chestra
officially opened its concert
season this year with a successful
presentation in the college gym-nasium
the evening of Friday, Feb-ruary
7. Under the direction of
Mr. Richard J. Guderyahn, the stu-dent
organization appeared before
a large and appreciative audience
which filled the hall to capacity.
The young musicians played a pro-gram
of both modern and classical
music in a way which revealed their
complete understanding and appre-ciation
of the music.
The program was opened with
the popular Overture to the "Merry
Wives of Windsor" by Nicolai. The
Prelude to "Lohengrin" by Wagner
was one of the most exquisite rendi-tions
of the evening. The delicate
blendings of strings, woodwind, and
brass were perhaps more evident in
this selection than in any other.
The Prelude depicts a vision of the
Holy Grail, and the effects in the
The sophomore class, who were
the losers in the Edda contest, held
before the holidays, is planning a
carnival which will be held in the
college gymnasium, February 22.
About a week ago committees were
elected to take charge of the ar-rangements
and since then have
been working fast and furiously to
prepare an extensive program of
entertainment and fun for every-one.
Nils Berdahl, Sioux Falls, has
charge of the affair and promises
an event that no one can afford
to miss.
There will be booths, and more
booths, all kinds of eats, paper hats,
balloons, confetti, 'n everything.
George Risty, Sioux Falls, and Irv-ing
Weiseth, Colman, promise at
least twenty new carnival features.
Rumor has it that there will be ex-pert
palm readers and fortune tell-ers
who can predict the future of
the most forceful professor or the
humblest freshman. There will be
musical seore describe the vision as
It first appears, gradually deepened
into the full majesty of being and
then subsides into unreality. The
first group was closed with the
"March" from the "Nutcracker
Suite" by Tschaikowsky.
The mastery of Beethoven of the
intricacies of rythm and harmony
was clearly shown in the "Lar-ghetto"
from his "Symphony No.
II." The lovely melody, carried
alternately by the strings and wood-winds,
in varied rythms, was
brought out with a delicate under-standing
of the artist's mood.
"Waltz" from "The Bat" by
Strauss, "The Waltz King," was ex-ecuted
with the same skill and pre-cision
which characterized the
whole program. Victor Herbert's
"March of the Toys" from "Babes
in Toyland," was remarkable for
the expert interplay of wind and
stringed instruments.
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surprises in every nook and corner
of the gymnasium.
Minerva Nelson, Sioux Falls, can
do nothing but giggle when the
question, "What are you going to
have for entertainment?" is put
to her . Judging by the giggles one
can expect nothing short of Sousa's
Band. In this connection too, we
might add that Orvin Larson, Sioux
Falls, has been acting strangely
lately also. He goes about seeming-ly
preoccupied with something mys-terious
and highly amusing. Friends
of his say, however, that he has a
right to act so, for his mighty
mind has conceived of something
new and original in the line of
novel entertainment.
Jessie Duke, Spencer, and Hazel
Larson, Beresford, tell us that the
best cooks in the country won't
have anything on the corps of cul-inary
artists they have selected to
aid them in providing good eats
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54 Singers to Make Trip
17 Concerts on Spring Tour
Schedule; Home Con-cert
on April 3
Augustana Senior Is
Married December 26
Augustana students were sur-prised
to learn of the marriage of
Lorraine Tabor, Sioux Falls, to
James Hazard, also of Sioux Falls,
which took place December 26 in
Chicago. The wedding was an-nounced
at a party given by the
bride's mother on Saturday eve-ning,
February 8.
Mrs. Hazard is a senior and will
receive her degree in June. Her
husband is attending Northwest-ern
University in Chicago, and
will be graduated for the insurance
department in the spring. They will
make their home in Chicago where
Mr. Hazard is connected with the
Aetna Insurance Company.
With nearly a decade of startling
concert achievement and progress
to its credit, the Augustana College
Choir, Sioux Falls, S. D., is sched-uled
for a concert season which
should serve as a worthy climax to
ten years of effort in the field of
classical sacred music. Arrange-ments
for the season include a home
concert scheduled in connection with
the first annual Music Festival of
the college on April 2-4 and an
annual tour which will take these
54 singers, their director, and man-ager,
to seventeen cities in South
Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri,
and Iowa, among which are included
some of the leading concert cities of
the Middle West. Several concerts
will be given on week end trips
to points within a short distance
from Sioux Falls. The Spring Tour
will begin on Easter Sunday, April
20 and will continue until Monday,
May 5.
Dr. Carl FL Youngdahl, director
of the choir, who was the founder
of the organization and who has
directed it since its beginning, be-lieves
that the tenth annual choir
is without a peer in Augustana
Choir history. Each year better
voices come to the college to try
out for membership in the nation-ally
lauded organization and in
consequence its singing is each year
bringing leading music critics every-where
to recognize that the Middle
West and America has developed an-other
choral organization which
ranks with the finest anywhere.
Charles Watt, editor of Music News
and a critic who knows whereof he
speaks states through . the officia 1
organ of the National Federation of
Music Clubs that the Augustana
ef Sioux Falls r is ad-mittedly
on, of the best ever de-veloped
in America."
Much Lauded In East
In the trip to the East this sum-mer
music lovers were unreserved
in their commendation of the superb
singing and unusual program of the
Choir. Concert managers were so
well pleased with the group that
invitations to make another appear-ance
soon were the rule. In view
of this demand Dr. Youngdahl is
thinking of the possibilities of mak-ing
another Eastern tour in 1931.
In its first decade of existence
the Choir has appeared from coast
to coast. The growth of the organ-ization
and the rapid acceptance of
its merit by music lovers has been
more rapid than anticipated by the
director even five years ago when an
Argus-Leader reporter asked him if
he contemplated taking the choir
to Boston and the East coast. At
that time Dr. Youngdahl answered,
"Put no bug like that into our ear
for the present at least." But the
Choir had not yet celebrated its
decennial before the unthought of
had been accomplished. That has
been the history of the choir, to
accomplish the impossible in sup-plying
the concert-going public with
music programs of unrivalled beau-ty.
Other organizations of a similar
nature have attributed their phe-nomenal
rise to work. The Augus-tana
Choir has been no exception,
for work has been the keyword of
its success. However, without the
love of the director for the task at
hand coupled with the youthful en-thusiasm
and unswerving allegiance
of the singers who fall under the
spell of his baton, no national repu-tation
such as the Choir now en-
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The Augustana Mirror
Vol. Sioux Falls, S. D., February 15, 1930 No.432"
Entrants Compete In Old Line,
Peace Oratory and Extemp Talks
Augustana Debaters Score Five
Consecutive Victories Over Buena
Vista, Concordia, Dakota Wesleyan
Augustana A Capella Choir To
Visit Four States To The South
On Their Annual Concert Tour
Maintain Perfect Record Miss Lewison Will
Coach Senior Play
11 el VI , 1111.
According to an announcement
received here Miss Borghild M.
Dahl, head of the English depart-ment,
has been appointed on the
committee to outline the course in
Scandinavian Languages which will
be offered in the new curriculum
for South Dakota high schools.
Scandinavian languages have not
been previously included in the
regular high school curriculum, while
practically all of the other modern
languages have received a large
share of attention. Mr. Giffen, head
of the South Dakota Department
of Education, states that the large
Scandinavian population in this
state makes it imperative that these
languages are offered, as well as
some of the languages which have
less interest to the average student.
This announcement is of special
interest to Augustana students, for
this college has had a department
of Scandinavian literature for sev-eral
years.
Ralph East
Larson, Enstrom. Nelson
Will Represent
Augustan a
Funds Being Raised
to Complete Church
Arthur Larrsun
University Women
Hold Meeting Here
The monthly meeting of the Am-erican
Association of University
Women was held in the parlors of
Ladies Hall on Saturday afternoon,
February S. The hostesses were
Mesdames G. H. Gilbertson, 0. Ton-fling,
and H. S. Hilleboe, and Misses
Selma Hogenson, Ellen Lewison,
Gratia Kjerland, Borghild and Dor-othy
Dahl, Olga Wold, and Nina
Solum. After all business had been
disposed of, Dr. Gage of Huron
'College spoke on "The China and
Japan of Today," explaining their
attitude toward foreigners, their
reasons for expansion, and their
means of salvation. He also dis-cussed
the Chinese and Japanese
theatre. This was followed by a
free discussion, after which the
hostesses served refreshments.
Mario Capelli Delights
Appreciative Audience
Under the direction of Miss Ellen
A. Lewison of the English depart-ment,
the senior class has begun
preliminary work in preparation
for the play which it will present
in the spring. A committee, con-sisting
of 0. Clifford Halvorson,
Astoria; Evelyn Larson, Canton;
and Eleanor Holbrook, Sioux Falls;
is now working with Miss Lewison
on the task of selecting a play.
Tryouts will be held in the near
future, and the cast selected.
It has become customary for the
college senior class to present a
play each spring, and, with work
beginning this early in the season,
it seems certain that the usual high
standard of Augustana dramatics
will be maintained when the class
of 1930 presents its play this
ppring.
Contest In Extemp
Speaking Is Held
The inter-society extemporaneous
contest was held in the Old Main
Chapel Wednesday evening, Febru-ary
5. This was the second of a
series of four contests, which in-clude
debate, extemporaneous, ora-tory,
and play.
In the women's division, the
Athenians won first place, with a
score of 86 1-3. The Adelphics,
with 85 2-3, and the Philomatians,
with 84 5-6, followed closely be-hind,
however, and the contest was
one of the most interesting of the
season. The men's contest, while
not so close, was also interesting,
so that the audience was never rest-less
during the entire contest. The
Demosthenians won this contest,
with the remarkable percentage of
89 1/2; the Gladstonians came sec-ond,
with 84, and the Websterians
were third, with 81 Y2. Individual
winners of the contest were Myrtle
Lokken in the women's division,
and Melvin Nelsen in the men's
division. Both had perfect ratings.
Representatives of the Athenian
Society were Dorothy Ege, Sioux
Falls, whose topic was "What kind,
or kinds, of immiprants does the
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Forensic representatives of Au-gustan•
will be gues,s of Dakota
Wesleyan University at Mitchell
on Friday and Saturday of this
week, when the South Dakota Inter-collegiate
Oratorical contest will be
held. Augustana will be represent-ed
in all departments of the contest,
which includes Old Line and Peace
oratory and extemporaneous speak-ing.
Augustana's representatives in the
contest are Ralph Enstrom, Canton,
in Old Line oratory; Arther Lar-son,
Sioux Falls, in Peace Oratory;
and Melvin Nelsen, Sioux Falls, in
extemporaneous speech.
Ralph Enstrom, a sophomore, Prof. C. Olson Directs won the right to represent Angus-
Glee Club in Concert tana in the State !Contest as the
The Norse Glee Club gave a con-result
of winning the Home Ora-
After only a week's work, the
campaign for funds to finish the
First Lutheran Church had on Sun-day,
February 9, reached a total of
over $30,000.00. This was made
possible through the valuable serv-ices
of Dr. J. A. 0. Stub, pastor
of Central Lutheran Church, Min-neapolis,
who spoke in behalf of the
church drive on Sunday evening,
'February 2; through the help of the
Rt. Rev. Bergsaker ; through the
co-operation of Rev. H. M. Mason
of the Church Extension Depart-ment,
and Rev. Axel Shefveland of
the Pension Department, who were
sent here by the Church headquar-ters
in Minneapolis; and also
through the splendid work done by
the men from the First Lutheran
Church.
By defeating Concordia College in
a debate at Moorhead, Minnesota,
Friday evening, February 7, an
Augustana men's debate team broke
the jinx which has been following
Augustana forensics, in the form of
defeats in debate by Concordia in
lour consecutive engagements with
that school. That the jinx has been
decisively broken is further proved
by the victory which A.ugustana
women scored over Concordia a few
weeks ago.
Representatives of Augustana in
this debate were Melvin Nelsen,
Sioux Falls; Arthur Larson, Sioux
Falls; and Richard Hanson, Free-man.
They excelled the Concordia
debaters, Wigdahl, Hagen, and Dis-tad,
in every point of the contest,
and scored a decisive victory, in
the opinion of the judge of the de-bate,
who was Prof. P. J. Hartness
of Northern State Teacher's Col-lege.
Prof. Hartness gave a critic's
decision.
On Friday, January 31, Augus-tana
defeated Dakota Wesleyan
University in a dual debate. A wo-men's
team, composed of Minerva
Nelson, Sioux Falls; Achsah Odell,
Montrose; and Myrtle Lokken,
Sioux Falls; defeated Wesleyan's
women's team, in a debate at Au-gustana,
in the Old Main Chapel,
Friday afternoon; and a men's
team, consisting of Melvin Nelsen,
Sioux Falls; Arthur Larson, Sioux
Falls; and Richard Hanson, Free-man;
won a victory at Mitchell Fri-day
evening.
Two non-decision debates were
held Monday evening, February 3.
Melvin Nelsen, Richard Hanson, and
Arthur Larson debated Morningside
College at Hawarden High School.
Hawarden, Iowa; and a two man
team, Orvin Larson, Sioux Falls;
and Joseph Saetveit, Friendship.
Wisconsin; debated a team from
Huron College, in the Old Main
Chapel.
In the Old Main Chapel Wed-nesday
evening, February 12, an
Augustana men's debate team, com-posed
of Arthur Larson, Sioux
Falls; Richard Hanson, Freeman;
and Melvin Nelsen, Sioux Falls; de-feated
a team from Buena Vista
College, of Storm Lake, Iowa. De
bating the negative side of the na-tional
Pi Kappa Delta question, the
Augustana debaters were superior
in every point of the contest, ex-cept
that of analysis, according to
Mr. J. D. Coon, prominent Sioux
Falls attorney, who gave a critic
decision of the debate.
$2,350 Is Total of
Library Contributions
Those who are interested in see-ing
the Augustana Library Fund
reach its goal will be delighted to
know that by continued effort actual
cash contributions to the cause by
various Luther Leagues, Ladies'
Aids, and Memorial Contributions
the Fund has grown to $2,350.40.
To meet requirements the total
$8,000 must be raised which re-quires
that more must enlist in an
effort to reach the goal. The alum-ni
have been asked to help do their
bit as well as the regular Luther
League and other auxiliary organ-izations
of the churches in the col-lege
district. Most congregations
have started contributing to the
fund and have stated intentions of
continuing until they can make a
100 per cent showing.
The present status of the fund
can be found on page two. Addi-tions
will be made as the contribu-tions
come in.
Inquiries Indicate A
Good Summer Session
Reports from the registrar's of-fice
indicate that a goodly number
of students can be expected at the
summer session, which begins the
second week of June. The large
number of inquiries compared to
that of previous years indicate that
the courses have a real attraction
for those who wish to augment
their credit or prepare themselves
for advance work. Many no doubt
are interested in the splendid op-portunity
this summer session of-fers
for training in music. Any
one who desires to attend should
make arrangements to do so now.
One of the most pleasing tenors
ever heard in Sioux Falls appeared
at the First Methodist Church
Thursday evening, February 6, in
the person of the Italian-American
tenor, Signor Mario Capelli. From
first to last he held his audience
spellbound with his deep, round
tones, and with his sympathetic in-terpretations.
Especially in the sing-ing
of Negro spirituals and Italian
folk songs did Signor Capelli excel.
The large church was filled to
hear him, and the audience in-cluded
many Augustana students,
who had taken the advice of Dr.
Robertson, pastor of the church,
who asked the students to attend
in a talk at chapel Wednesday,
January 29. All were equally well
pleased witu Ole' . (11.
by the applause which followed ev-ery
number, and by the fact that
time after time Signor Capelli was
prevailed upon to sing encores and
request numbers.
Dr. Robertson announced that
Signor Capelli may return to Sioux
Falls sometime during the summer,
so that music lovers of the city
may hear him again then.
Several Non-Decision De-bates
Are Held in Pre-paration
for Tournament
Miss Borghild Dahl
Gets Appointment
Model School To Be
Completely Remodeled
Under the supervision of Miss
Hilda Dahl, new critic teacher,
many, improvements are under way
in the training school. A large
cloak room is being transformed
into Zit) offi•e for the supervise, •
arrangements for the placing of art
work on the walls are completed;
and a definite art curriculum is be-ing
established.
Practice teachers are given a
change every six weeks, either in
subjects or in grades taught. Each
teacher now has both "A" and
"B" classes, and each teacher has
one room. Intensive work is being
done in music, a policy in keeping
with Augustana's reputation in the
music field. The grammar grades
are now doing two-part music.
According to Miss Dahl, the en-tire
Model School building is to be
rennovated, and put in the best of
condition.
cert at the Metropolitan Hall Sun-day
afternoon, February 9. The
Glee Club has been conducting pop-ular
matinee concerts under the
leadership of Prof. Clifford Olson.
The program given follows:
"Steal Away" Negro Spirituals
`Swinging Low"
"Den Store Hvide Flok" Grieg
Glee Club
Violin solo
James Berdahl
"Larboard Watch" Williams
"Last Night" (request number )__
Kjerulf
Glee Club
Reading
Memorial Contribution
Swells Library Fund
Minerva Nelson
"Olav Trygvason" Reisiger
"Naar Fjordene Blaaner" Paulson
Glee Club
torical Contest last May. He has a
task ahead of him worthy of the
best orator, to hold t1i silver cup
for the school which ,!lr. Larson
won last year, and wi it MT.
EndLrom -wirm tne co:Az2....Fk? this week,
will remain the permanent property
of Augustana. The title of Mr. En.:
strom's oration is "The Lag."
Melvin Nelsen, in his second year
of state competition, is expected to
make a somewhat better showing
over that of last year. He is a
senior, and at his best he should
bring further honors to Augustana
in forensics.
Arthur Larson is also in his sec-ond
year of state competition. Last
year he won the Old Line contest,
and because of the rule prevent-ing
a winner from competing in
the same contest again, he is en-tered
in the Peace contest this
year. He is a junior at Augustana.
Mr. Larson's oration is entitled,
"Indian Medicine."
These men will represent Au-gustana
at the state contest this
year, and, with proper support from
the rest of the students, they should
return with as large a share of the
honors as Augustana ever received.
Dr. Preus Addresses
Augustana Auxiliary
The Augustana Women's Auxili-ary
met „ at the First Lutheran
Church on Monday, February 3.
The program included a talk by
Dr. 0. J. H. Preus, and a violin
solo, "Ballade et Polonaise" (Vieux-temps)
by Gloria Monserud, Sioux
Falls, accompanied by Esther Oker-lund,
Frost, Minnesota. Rev. H. 0.
Shurson, treasurer of the general
church body, gave a short talk.
Hostesses for the afternoon were:
Mesdames N. 0. Monserud, W. 0.
Nelson, G. H. Gilbertson, and E. G.
Ege.
Inter-Class Tourney To
Be Held for Debaters
The forensic department of the
college will sponsor on inter-class
debate tournament which will be
held some time in March, accord-ing
to an announcement made last
week. The purpose of the debates
will be twofold. In the first place
they will give those not able to
compete in varsity debate a chance
to do some interesting work, and
finally, they will stimulate inter-class
interest. The subject of the
debate will be the chain store
question. Two teams from each
class will compete. and many of the
students interested have already
started working on the question.
Another In Memoriam contribu-tion
to the Augustana College Li-brary
fund has been received at
the college recently. The contribu-tion
was made to the memory of
Mrs. Eda Hove of Flandreau, S. D.,
who died on January 9, 1930. The
(donors to the contribution were her
husband, Ole Hove, and Mrs. S. B.
Halverson, Sioux Falls, Mrs. H. P.
Moen, and Mrs. Smeby of Mis-sion
Hill, sisters-in-law to the de-ceased.
There were other, contribu-tors
to the fund according to Rev.
J. A. Billie of Flandreau who sent
the Memorial to the college.
This is the second contribution of
such a memorial nature to be made
to the fund within the past month.
The previous memorial was the
(Chester Hanson Memorial of the
Mission Hill congregation.
Societas Latina to
Hold Annual Banquet
The regular Latin Society meet-ing
was held in the Old Main chapel
Tuesday e v e n i n g, January 28.
Plans for the Latin banquet, which
probably will be held on February
18, were discussed. The following
committees were appointed: re-freshments,
Esther Olbertson, Beres-ford,
chairman; Eunice Hawley,
Brandt; and Mildred Halderson,
Elk Point; decorating—Marie Berg-saker,
Sioux Falls, chairman; Agnes
Rodvold, Lake Preston; and Mae
Oyan, Baltic; program (a standing
committee) — Minerva Christenson,
Sioux Falls, chairman; Clarine El-lefson,
Sioux Falls; and Roumelle
Lundeen, Bristol. The following
members of the teacher's training
class will also assist: Marion Nel-son,
Hills, Minnesota; Grace El-lingson,
Ellingson; Iva Carlson,
Trent; Myrtle Lokken, Sioux Falls;
Bernhard Stadem, Bryant; and
Roumelle Lundeen, Bristol.
Recital Is Presented
By Students of Music
One of a series of student re-
-citals was presented in the chapel
of the Old Main on the evening of
Monday, February 10. Pupils of
Dr. Carl R. Youngdahl, Professor
Clifford J. Olson, Miss Gladys An-derson,
and Miss Laura Fisher ap-peared.
Another recital will be
given February 24.
The following pr o g r a m was
given:
Piano—Sonata Opus 2___Beethoven
Allegro con brio
Esther Okerlund, Frost Minnesota
Voice—Where 'er You Walk____
Handel
Herman Larsen, Garretson
Piano—Mazurka Saint Saens
Melvin Freng, Yankton
Voice—Deep River Burleigh
My Little Sunflower Goodnight__
Vanderpool
Marie Bergsaker, Sioux Falls
Organ—Sonata in C Minor
Guilmant
Allegro maestro
Adagio
Doris Arnold, St. Paul, Minnesota
Piano—Pharaonenland ___Niemann
Blair Burnson, Hettinger,
North Dakota
Voice—Maytime Oley Speaks
Edna Rasmussen, Sioux Falls
Piano—Dawn Friml
The Holy Mount Niehmann
Phyllis Sullivan, Wynot, Nebraska
Voice--iLift Thine Eyes Logan
Edward Paul, Bryant
Symphony Orchestra Pleases Large
Audience With Exceptional Program
Sophomore Class Will Pay Penalty
By Sponsoring All School Carnival
The Augustana Symphony Or-chestra
officially opened its concert
season this year with a successful
presentation in the college gym-nasium
the evening of Friday, Feb-ruary
7. Under the direction of
Mr. Richard J. Guderyahn, the stu-dent
organization appeared before
a large and appreciative audience
which filled the hall to capacity.
The young musicians played a pro-gram
of both modern and classical
music in a way which revealed their
complete understanding and appre-ciation
of the music.
The program was opened with
the popular Overture to the "Merry
Wives of Windsor" by Nicolai. The
Prelude to "Lohengrin" by Wagner
was one of the most exquisite rendi-tions
of the evening. The delicate
blendings of strings, woodwind, and
brass were perhaps more evident in
this selection than in any other.
The Prelude depicts a vision of the
Holy Grail, and the effects in the
The sophomore class, who were
the losers in the Edda contest, held
before the holidays, is planning a
carnival which will be held in the
college gymnasium, February 22.
About a week ago committees were
elected to take charge of the ar-rangements
and since then have
been working fast and furiously to
prepare an extensive program of
entertainment and fun for every-one.
Nils Berdahl, Sioux Falls, has
charge of the affair and promises
an event that no one can afford
to miss.
There will be booths, and more
booths, all kinds of eats, paper hats,
balloons, confetti, 'n everything.
George Risty, Sioux Falls, and Irv-ing
Weiseth, Colman, promise at
least twenty new carnival features.
Rumor has it that there will be ex-pert
palm readers and fortune tell-ers
who can predict the future of
the most forceful professor or the
humblest freshman. There will be
musical seore describe the vision as
It first appears, gradually deepened
into the full majesty of being and
then subsides into unreality. The
first group was closed with the
"March" from the "Nutcracker
Suite" by Tschaikowsky.
The mastery of Beethoven of the
intricacies of rythm and harmony
was clearly shown in the "Lar-ghetto"
from his "Symphony No.
II." The lovely melody, carried
alternately by the strings and wood-winds,
in varied rythms, was
brought out with a delicate under-standing
of the artist's mood.
"Waltz" from "The Bat" by
Strauss, "The Waltz King," was ex-ecuted
with the same skill and pre-cision
which characterized the
whole program. Victor Herbert's
"March of the Toys" from "Babes
in Toyland," was remarkable for
the expert interplay of wind and
stringed instruments.
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surprises in every nook and corner
of the gymnasium.
Minerva Nelson, Sioux Falls, can
do nothing but giggle when the
question, "What are you going to
have for entertainment?" is put
to her . Judging by the giggles one
can expect nothing short of Sousa's
Band. In this connection too, we
might add that Orvin Larson, Sioux
Falls, has been acting strangely
lately also. He goes about seeming-ly
preoccupied with something mys-terious
and highly amusing. Friends
of his say, however, that he has a
right to act so, for his mighty
mind has conceived of something
new and original in the line of
novel entertainment.
Jessie Duke, Spencer, and Hazel
Larson, Beresford, tell us that the
best cooks in the country won't
have anything on the corps of cul-inary
artists they have selected to
aid them in providing good eats
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